BlackEnglish Means either "black" (from Old English blæc) or "pale" (from Old English blac). It could refer to a person with a pale or a dark complexion, or a person who worked with black dye.
FeketeHungarian Means "black" in Hungarian, originally a nickname for a person with dark hair or a dark complexion.
KaragiannismGreek From the Greek prefix καρα (kara) meaning "black, dark" (of Turkish origin) and the given name Giannis.
KaramazovLiterature Created by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky for his novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879), about three brothers and their murdered father. Dostoyevsky may have based it on Tartar/Turkic кара (kara) meaning "black" and Russian мазать (mazat) meaning "stain". The connection to black is implied in the novel when one of the brothers is accidentally addressed as Mr. Черномазов (Chernomazov), as if based on Russian чёрный meaning "black".
KilduffIrish From the Irish Mac Giolla Dhuibh meaning "son of the black-haired man".
KurodaJapanese From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning "black" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".
KuroiwaJapanese From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning "black" and 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks".
KurokiJapanese From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning "black" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".
KurosawaJapanese From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning "black" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh". A notable bearer was Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), a Japanese film director.
LêVietnamese Vietnamese form of Li 2, from Sino-Vietnamese 黎 (lê). This is the third most common surname in Vietnam.
SchwarzeneggerGerman From a place name, derived from Old High German swarz meaning "black" and ekka meaning "edge, corner". A famous bearer of this name is actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-).